Imagine if the U.S. government demanded to seize personal e-mails within the control of a U.S.-based Internet service provider but stored on a foreign server without following the proper legal procedures.

Manufacturers have become technology companies. They have leveraged the Internet to compete, deploy new technologies, connect with their workforce and their customers, reduce costs, cut waste, enhance the environment and create safer, more reliable products. President Obama’s proposal to regulate the Internet, using an 80-year-old law enacted during the era of rotary telephones, threatens to curtail future investment in our nation’s communications infrastructure, which has helped fuel this manufacturing innovation engine.

As leading technology innovators, manufacturers were in the spotlight at this year’s International Consumer
Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, hosted in Las Vegas, Nev.
The NAM was there to maximize
manufacturing’s exposure and seize the opportunity to help connect
the world’s leading manufacturers with key policy leaders in
Congress and the Administration attending the CES.